Someone Created First AI-Powered Ransomware Using OpenAI’s gpt-oss:20b Model
Cybersecurity company ESET has disclosed that it discovered an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered ransomware variant codenamed PromptLock. Written in Golang, the ...
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Anthropic Disrupts AI-Powered Cyberattacks Automating Theft and Extortion Across Critical Sectors
Aug 27, 2025Ravie LakshmananCyber Attack / Artificial Intelligence Anthropic on Wednesday revealed that it disrupted a sophisticated operation that weaponized ...
ShadowSilk Hits 36 Government Targets in Central Asia and APAC Using Telegram Bots
A threat activity cluster known as ShadowSilk has been attributed to a fresh set of attacks targeting government entities within ...
The 5 Golden Rules of Safe AI Adoption
Aug 27, 2025The Hacker NewsEnterprise Security / Data Protection Employees are experimenting with AI at record speed. They are drafting ...
Salesloft OAuth Breach via Drift AI Chat Agent Exposes Salesforce Customer Data
Aug 27, 2025Ravie LakshmananCloud Security / Threat Intelligence A widespread data theft campaign has allowed hackers to breach sales automation ...
Blind Eagle’s Five Clusters Target Colombia Using RATs, Phishing Lures, and Dynamic DNS Infra
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered five distinct activity clusters linked to a persistent threat actor known as Blind Eagle between May ...
Citrix Patches Three NetScaler Flaws, Confirms Active Exploitation of CVE-2025-7775
Aug 26, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Remote Code Execution Citrix has released fixes to address three security flaws in NetScaler ADC ...
New Sni5Gect Attack Crashes Phones and Downgrades 5G to 4G without Rogue Base Station
Aug 26, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Mobile Security A team of academics has devised a novel attack that can be used ...
MixShell Malware Delivered via Contact Forms Targets U.S. Supply Chain Manufacturers
Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a sophisticated social engineering campaign that's targeting supply chain-critical manufacturing companies with an in-memory ...
ShadowCaptcha Exploits WordPress Sites to Spread Ransomware, Info Stealers, and Crypto Miners
A new large-scale campaign has been observed exploiting over 100 compromised WordPress sites to direct site visitors to fake CAPTCHA ...
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